The Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop (ICC2011) will take place August 16 to 19, 2011 in Seattle Washington. Abstract submission is handled through the website, specifically here Abstracts - Deadline June 10.

One of our New Jersey contacts is a fan of Virginia-based fusion research company HyperV. In place of an array of lasers like NIF or pneumatic pistons like General Fusion, HyperV plans to pump up the fusion power with an array of thirty miniature plasma rail guns—That’s the inertial part. Integration of a magnetic component further increases the confinement time. A plasma liner plays an important role, leading to the overall acronym PLMIF: Plasma liner driven magneto-inertial fusion.